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guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | world | End Elian's trauma, father pleads | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/07/cuba.usa | The father of Elian Gonzalez, the six-year-old Cuban boy at the centre of a trial of strength between Miami's anti-Castro Cuban community and the Havana government, flew to the US from Cuba yesterday and appealed for the return home of his son. But in Miami the boy's relatives and their backers refused to hand him over... | 840 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | uk-news | Dark rumours surround Chinook crash | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/14/northernireland.comment | The conflict in Northern Ireland has left many mysteries in its wake. The reopened probe into the 1989 murder of nationalist solicitor Pat Finucane and the new inquiry into Bloody Sunday in 1972 are the successful minority of a host of demanded new investigations. The remaining issues which have yet to be satisfactoril... | 733 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-14 | world | Solomon Islands' leader quits | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/14/solomonislands | The prime minister of the Solomon Islands, Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, has tendered his resignation in advance of tomorrow's parliamentary vote on a confidence motion against him. He had been the target of an attempted coup a little over a week ago. Mr Ulufa'alu told the Associated Press that rebels who seized the capital l... | 453 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | law | Lords torpedo wrecks Straw's jury bill | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/21/jurytrials.law | A government bill was wrecked last night when the Lords voted by 222 to 126 to keep defendants' right to choose trial by jury. The vote came during debate on the criminal justice (mode of trial) bill, despite a warning from the attorney general, Lord Williams of Mostyn, who said the bill would be ruined if the rebel am... | 1,202 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | global | Ringing up the right numbers | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/oct/14/features.jobsmoney | Think about switching telephone companies. You should; it could save you hundreds of pounds a year. Or it could turn your house into a telecoms nerve centre, hosting all kinds of interactive services from digital TV to super-fast internet access. But nausea and headaches have accompanied rage and frustration in custome... | 1,327 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | politics | MPs urge higher taxes on polluters | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/mar/21/uk.politicalnews | Higher taxes on petrol guzzling cars and lorries and the worldwide introduction of a large aviation fuel duty were demanded yesterday on the eve of the budget by MPs investigating the dangers of global warming. Gordon Brown and John Prescott were severely criticised by the Commons environment committee for failing to t... | 475 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | money | You must be joking | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/feb/14/workandcareers | Was Sophie Windsor having a laugh when she wore that fox fur hat on the slopes last week? There is a years-old office joke about Prince Charles and a fox hat (either you know it or you don't) and it occured to me that Edward's new wife was just doing her own, rather tasteless version. Jokes are a vital part of British ... | 1,031 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-06 | money | Dear Anna | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jan/06/consumeraffairs.consumerpages | Gas escape Sue Lakeman and her husband of Canterbury are the latest readers to have enjoyed a one-sided correspondence with the phantoms at British Gas. Last April her account was £355 in credit. Then came a letter informing her that some incorrect account details had been amended and a new bill, for somewhat more than... | 1,471 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-28 | business | Dogfight over the skies | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/29/theobserver.observerbusiness11 | First it was petrol. Next it was trains. Last week it was the turn of planes to prompt a crisis for the Government. Following in the wake of the Hatfield crash and the fuel protests that brought motorised Britain to a standstill, last Thursday saw its attempt to sell off 51 per cent of Britain's National Air Traffic Co... | 1,437 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | uk-news | Shipman 'invited' to inquest | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/07/shipman.health | A coroner announced yesterday that he has asked former doctor Harold Shipman, Britain's most prolific serial killer, to give evidence at the inquests into the deaths of three of his former patients. John Pollard, the south Manchester coroner, has written to Shipman at Frankland prison in Durham, asking him to say in pu... | 246 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | uk-news | Church seeks to ease Carey's burden | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/07/religion.world | The Church of England is being asked to consider appointing a third archbishop to help relieve the burden of work on the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church, whose congregations have declined to fewer than a million Sunday worshippers in recent years, is also being urged to think about appointing as its next candidate... | 396 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | business | Rendezvous in Reno desert reinforces dim view of Amazon | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/sep/21/news.amazon | A desert get-together intended to convince the market of Amazon.com's potential has fallen flat, serving only to reinforce polarised views about the online bookseller. In response to complaints about a lack of openness, Amazon.com's chief executive officer, Jeff Bezos, invited hundreds of analysts and investors to a co... | 387 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | uk-news | California clue to lethal injections | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/28/drugsandalcohol.stuartmillar | Health experts investigating a mystery infection which has killed 11 heroin users in Glasgow believe a spate of similar deaths in California may offer some important clues, The Observer has learned. Five addicts in San Francisco died in a three-week period last year from horrific infections contracted after injecting d... | 671 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-28 | media | Leader: The time has come for a TV experiment | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/28/guardianleaders | Lawyers were adopting a St Augustine of Hippo ("make me chaste, but not yet") approach to reform yesterday: our front page report on moves by Labour to allow television cameras into court was met with considerable caution by the legal establishment - even though it coincided with an appeal from the lord chief justice, ... | 723 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | us-news | A war of words will not end the killing | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/14/usgunviolence.usa | The fierce spat between President Bill Clinton and US gun-lovers will not impress election-year voters or have much impact on the appalling death toll on America's streets and increasingly, in its schools. Mr Clinton clashed with the National Rifle Association - the main pro-gun lobby - after the NRA's executive vice-p... | 783 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | money | The office gossip | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/15/officehours1 | "My job is all about communication," says Sophie Jeffrey, who for the past two years has worked as press and PR officer for Isle of Wight tourism. "By phone, email, fax - it's all about getting information across." Jeffrey believes that the most important factor in communicating effectively is knowing why you are doing... | 630 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-28 | world | Mugabe's new threat to grab land | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/28/zimbabwe.andrewmeldrum1 | A defiant President Robert Mugabe last night vowed to continue with his controversial policy of seizing and redistributing white-owned land after being thrown a political lifeline in Zimbabwe's general election. In a nationwide television address, a relieved looking Mr Mugabe promised to work towards national reconcili... | 946 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | global | A smoulder to cry on | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jul/15/artsfeatures2 | Fierrabras Buxton Opera House ** "I work on my opera and read Walter Scott!" enthused Schubert in 1823. Posterity perhaps wishes he had concentrated on one thing or the other. Scott's misty romanticism permeates every crevice of Schubert's ramshackle final opera like a case of rising damp putting paid to a flimsy struc... | 562 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-21 | world | Clinton calls for end to violence after Kashmir attack | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/21/kashmir.india | President Bill Clinton today called for an end to violence in Kashmir after at least 35 Sikhs were massacred in the province at the centre of a bitter territorial dispute between India and Pakistan. Gunmen lined up and shot the villagers after dark, police said. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee denounced Monday nigh... | 683 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-14 | money | Confer and conquer... | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/oct/15/workandcareers.madeleinebunting1 | So the political conference season is over, and the rallying calls and hectoring cries are left to echo in the rafters of seaside halls from Brighton to Bournemouth. For thousands of others from all walks of life, however, the glad-handing, the fiddling with registration badges and resisting the allure of yet another c... | 1,322 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | society | Rural white paper - the main points | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/28/localgovernment.ruralaffairs | The government's rural white paper is intended to be a blueprint for the rejuvenation of the countryside. Here are its main proposals. • A 50% rate cut for village shops, pubs and garages which offer a benefit to the community • Giving local councils discretion to end the 50% council tax discounts for second homes, wit... | 322 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | money | Consumer: Dear Anna | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/dec/21/consumeraffairs.consumerpages | Visa rip-offs revisited Dark warnings from a London reader who, for reasons that will become clear, requires to remain anonymous. He has noticed advertisements in the national press for a company called Visaplus which promises to help customers obtain a US visa and a job out there for a fee of several thousand pounds. ... | 1,563 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | world | Oxfam fury at education summit | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/28/education.educationnews | Initial optimism that UN bodies, non-government groups and ministers would back an international action plan with extra money to bring basic education to more than 125m children were dashed last night in favour of vague commitments from the world community. Non-governmental groups were last night meeting in emergency s... | 750 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | media | Arena bids for UK horseracing rights | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/21/citynews.broadcasting | Racecourse owner Arena Leisure has bid a total of £320m for terrestrial and non-terrestrial broadcasting rights to all UK race meetings. The offer was made to the Racecourse Association, which owns the UK's 59 racecourses, following the breakdown earlier this year of a joint bid from a consortium including Channel 4, t... | 165 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-21 | uk-news | Lament of a lost people | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/21/books.northernireland | 'Everything is black and white. They never realise that it is what lies between that is colourful and interesting. They don't understand shading. In their naivety, they stick to this unquestioning belief in right and wrong. And so they miss all the lovely magic.' Dermot Seymour was born in the Shankill Road, the Protes... | 916 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | uk-news | From the Hindu Kush to the Cotswolds | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/14/stansted.theairlineindustry2 | It's difficult to imagine any place less like Kabul than Moreton-in-Marsh. The 70-odd asylum seekers now cooped up in the Fire Service College on the outskirts of the little Cotswolds town might catch a whiff of the bazaar in the regular Tuesday street market (there is an excellent spice stall), and, being from a cultu... | 437 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | society | Schools and the Immigration Service | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/21/socialcare.education | The little boy in the grey school sweatshirt walked into his headteacher's office, handed him an official letter that had been sent to his home and burst into tears. "I am writing to inform you," said the letter from the UK Immigration Service, "that arrangements have been made for your removal from the United Kingdom.... | 1,884 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | politics | Londoners back 'independent' Livingstone for mayor | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/feb/21/londonmayor.london2 | Ken Livingstone would win a resounding victory if he stood as an independent candidate for mayor of London, according to a poll published today. The ICM poll showed that if Mr Livingstone stood against Labour's official candidate Frank Dobson 50% of voters would back the former GLC leader against 22% for Mr Dobson, Ton... | 835 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-07 | education | Qualified success | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/mar/07/furthereducation.theguardian3 | Words, words, words. For a start, why do people sometimes use the word "college" to mean university? You know how it is: for 51 weeks of the year, there is a pecking order. Universities, even ones that used to be called polytechnics, set a (world-class) standard, and the rest of us know our place. Then, some time in Se... | 798 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | society | Party politics | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/jun/21/guardiansocietysupplement3 | In the Land of Youth There are pleasant places, Green joyful woods and fields... These lyrics are from the libretto of the 1914 opera, The Immortal Hour, the best-known work of the bohemian composer, Communist party member and self-styled English Wagner, Rutland Boughton. He was the organiser of the original Glastonbur... | 1,878 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | society | Comment: France's rural life a model for UK | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/28/communities.localgovernment1 | As a creature of habit I usually take two holidays a year, one week in St Ives, Cornwall, at Easter and two or three weeks in a village in southwest France in the summer. And I do not need today's rural white paper from the government to tell me which country conducts its rural life better. France wins every time. The ... | 1,232 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | politics | Indonesia arms ban to be lifted | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jan/14/ethicalforeignpolicy.indonesia | Britain and its EU partners are to resume arms sales to Indonesia, the government announced yesterday, in a move which enraged human rights groups and anti-arms trade campaigners. John Battle, the foreign office minister, made it clear that the EU arms embargo, imposed four months ago in response to the atrocities in E... | 730 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | technology | Vivendi ponders rescue for Mannesmann | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jan/28/efinance.business | The board of Vivendi, the French media and utilities group, meets in Paris today amid speculation that it could seal an alliance with Mannesmann, rescuing the German telecoms group from the clutches of Vodafone. With 10 days to the closing date of Vodafone's £95bn hostile bid for Mannesmann, the French group is said to... | 356 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-28 | world | Ireland: Follow the money and you'll find Charlie | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/28/theobserver2 | How rich do you have to be to lose track of a million pounds? The question came up last week at the Moriarty Tribunal, which is investigating the payment of large sums of money to former Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey. It's easier to mislay that kind of money if you are the financial controller of a large firm, a... | 943 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-21 | technology | www.open.gov | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jan/21/egovernment.politics | Alex Allan, former high commissioner for Australia (now there's a qualification for the top Whitehall IT job) has just started work as "e-envoy". His mission is "to drive forward e-commerce and e-government". The latter means putting the state online, a huge enterprise. Allan's chivvying of the private sector is going ... | 1,151 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | money | A short history of the secretary | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/14/officehours1 | Who'd be a secretary? Back in 1969, the Times published a letter of advice to her - and it was, of course, always "her". Among the nuggets of wisdom offered to the nice young girl - and it was, of course, always a nice young girl - were the following gems: wear deodorant; learn how to make good tea and coffee; and alwa... | 1,617 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | media | Sky News sets up investigative journalism unit | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/nov/14/broadcasting4 | Sky News has created a new investigative journalism unit designed to focus on special reports. The unit, led by head of special reports Michael Wilson, will include award-winnig journalists David Chater, Andrew Simmons, Mark Saggers and Greg Milam. Head of Sky News Nick Pollard said: "The calibre and experience of this... | 208 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | world | Focus: Denmark: The nation that likes to say 'Nej', August 2000 | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/27/euro.eu | A raven-haired lady in a cardigan, more grandmother than grand inquisitor, seizes the microphone, her voice choked with emotion. 'I would rather give up my soul than give up the krone,' she insists. A sea of grey and blond heads nod in agreement. Her image is projected on a giant screen and her words are relayed to tel... | 2,037 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | world | Steroids and their scary successors | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/07/sydney.sport | Anabolic steroids Steroids are synthetic substances related to testosterone, the male sex hormone. While these drugs have medical uses, including treating delayed puberty and some types of impotence, their use can reduce sperm production, shrink the testicles, and cause impotence and breast enlargement in men. Women ca... | 606 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-06 | uk-news | The men who will check the weapons | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/07/northernireland.theobserver1 | Cyril Ramaphosa, who is to help inspect IRA weapon dumps, is a former Secretary-General of the African National Congress. Ramaphosa played a significant role in ending apartheid after being elected ANC Secretary-General in 1991. He was the main negotiator in constitutional talks with the National Party and was chairman... | 232 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | media | Defence of the title | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/14/mondaymediasection.pressandpublishing2 | This week, the New Yorker celebrates its 75th anniversary with a 300-page bumper edition that finds many of its past contributors tempted back into the flattering typeface of the fabled publication. Likely as not, the week will also see additions to that vast file of articles about the title - one that still counts to ... | 1,935 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-06 | money | FSA to open financial store for best deals | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jun/07/business.personalfinancenews | The financial services authority is to set up a call centre to give buyers of mortgages, pensions and investments a list of the best products to take out in a move that has sent shockwaves through Britain's independent financial advisers. Buyers will also be able to consult league tables on the FSA's website allowing t... | 327 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-06 | business | Guardian survey names worst endowment performers | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/07/lloydstsbgroup | A Guardian survey published today reveals that Pearl and Lloyds TSB have among the worst problems with failing mortgage endowments, with up to 40% of policies in serious shortfall compared to an industry average of 12%. Pearl says that 40% of its 140,000 policies have fallen into the "red" category of endowments, which... | 659 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | media | BA braced for rivals' onslaught | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/dec/07/advertising | British Airways is bracing itself for an onslaught of abuse from rival airlines following its defeat at the high court this week. Ryanair wasted no time in getting one over on its larger rival by launching national press ads yesterday that said, "BA are expensive. It's official. The high court says so!". The ads refer ... | 263 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | world | International news in brief | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/21/2 | Veterans stage pay blockade Russian servicemen back from service in Chechnya blockaded the Rostov headquarters of their commanding officers yesterday in protest at their lack of pay. Around 30 of the soldiers, who signed up for military service voluntarily, stepped up their protest after a month of being ignored as the... | 315 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | politics | Gordon's big bonanza | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/apr/28/labour.labour1997to99 | Before even considering what should be done about it, just wallow in the wonderment of it all. This government, formed by a party never famed in the past for its luck with the economy, is to pocket a windfall gain of £22.5bn as a result of the auction of radio spectrum for the next generation of all-singing, all-dancin... | 702 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | world | 'A neighbourhood was blown away' | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/15/ianblack | Reeling from a thunderous explosion that tore their lives apart, hundreds of residents of this Dutch town were spending last night in emergency shelters and asking troubling questions about the disaster that befell them. Rescue teams searched all day under a blazing sun for survivors of Saturday's massive blast at a fi... | 1,346 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-21 | politics | Vindaloo, vindaloo, tally ho, tally ho, vindaloo | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jun/21/politicalnews.politics | A reader has emailed a brilliant suggestion that would end two of the government's big political problems overnight. Instead of chasing foxes, we could offer hooligan hunting. What a colourful sight it would be! The hunt in their scarlet jackets, the sinewy, sweating horses panting for the start, the baying of the houn... | 820 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | uk-news | Second 'superhead' resigns | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/mar/14/schools.news | The government's fresh start for failing schools was hit yesterday by the second resignation in a week of a "superhead" sent in to restore order and improve academic results. Carol McAlpine said she would quit as head of Firfield school in Newcastle upon Tyne at the end of this term, after 18 months in the job. The ann... | 587 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-27 | us-news | Gun massacre suspect denies murder | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/27/usgunviolence.usa1 | A software engineer accused of murdering seven co-workers at a US internet consulting company was denied bail today after denying seven counts of murder. Michael McDermott, 42, stood impassive as a prosecutor described how the shooter blasted through the offices of Edgewater Technology with 37 rounds from a semiautomat... | 756 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | uk-news | Salute to photographer | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/15/davidward | Don McPhee, the Guardian photographer whose wit and humanity have delighted readers for 30 years, was awarded an honorary degree yesterday by Manchester Metropolitan University. McPhee has spent all his Guardian career in Manchester, recording its life and using it as a base from which to explore Britain and much of th... | 258 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-21 | world | What Zimbabwe's papers say | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/21/zimbabwe | • Financial Gazette If I were President Robert Mugabe: I would abolish the word Comrade; I would immediately withdraw Zimbabwean troops from the Congo; I would use my law degree to stop lawlessness; and I would stop the "government process" of printing money since this is the main cause of inflation. I would also use m... | 439 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | education | Blunkett outlines vision for over 11s | https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/jan/07/schools.education | The government yesterday published a blueprint for a hi-tech revolution in secondary schools over the next 10 years to provide every pupil with a customised learning plan and keep all young people in education or training until the age of 19. David Blunkett, the education and employment secretary, unveiled promises in ... | 1,025 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-14 | world | A taste for quiet and a talent for discord | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/14/uselections2000.usa3 | When Katherine Harris was elected Florida secretary of state she said modestly she was not seeking prominence greater than that which came with the job. Two years later, the responsibilities discharged by 43-year-old Ms Harris include elections in the state, and it is for this that she will be remembered across the wor... | 414 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | media | Need to know | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/may/15/newmedia1 | Age? 26. Who is he? Co-MD of Netronyx.com, an interactive web design and promotion agency going live next week. Previously did 3-D models for a company that designed shops. What's the clever idea? "The Ali G Flash promo - how you can use the internet for advertising. Basically, I did it on a Saturday afternoon for a bi... | 568 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | environment | Washington will miss greenhouse target | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2000/jul/22/internationalnews | The United States is unable to meet the legally binding greenhouse gas reduction target it accepted at the Kyoto climate conference in 1998, Washington admitted yesterday. Unless Europe gives way and allows the US unlimited rights to trade internationally in so-called "carbon credits", it will not fulfil "a large fract... | 835 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | media | Joe Klein, the author of Primary Colors, claims spin is dead | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/aug/14/pressandpublishing.politicsphilosophyandsociety | Judgments on the great figures of the day fall blithely from the lips of Joe Klein, without question the most widely-read political writer in the world: Clinton, Blair, Gore, Bush, Billy Bragg. Billy Bragg? Before Klein transcended the traditional parameters of his trade with Primary Colors, his best-selling satire on ... | 1,926 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | world | Fear can block even the information highway | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jul/07/serbia.comment | The wired world was supposed to be peculiarly resistant to attempts to hinder the free flow of information. In the old days, authoritarian states censored the press, padlocked telex machines, tapped phones, jammed broadcasts, and even went to such grotesque lengths as to register every typewriter. With the internet, an... | 1,390 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-14 | money | Sterling advice | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/15/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney4 | It's that time of year again. With Easter and two bank holidays rapidly approaching, many of us are thinking of going away. The Association of British Travel Agents says around 1.5m Brits will be going abroad next weekend - so the chances are that this weekend will not be spent shopping around for the best travel insur... | 883 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | uk-news | Shoplifting spree by ex-pop star | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/07/2 | Former pop star Steve Strange had already committed four shoplifting offences the same day when he was caught stealing a doll, a court in Bridgend, South Wales, heard yesterday. Strange, lead singer of the 1980s band Visage, was arrested for stealing a £10.99 Tellytubby, magistrates heard. Police then discovered that S... | 247 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | society | New attack on black economy | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/07/socialcare | Persistent benefit fraudsters will lose their right to state support, as part of a crackdown on the black economy in a social security fraud bill. The government will withdraw or reduce benefits for anyone convicted twice of committing a benefit offence over the previous three years. The department of social security s... | 311 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | uk-news | Welcome the wandering tribes | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/may/07/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices | Entering Europe illegally is a dangerous business for asylum seekers and so-called 'economic migrants', whether they come from Iraq, Turkey, Sri Lanka or China. But for the growing numbers of Africans prepared to cross the Sahara in search of a job, the journey is a nightmare. Williams Osunde grew up in Lagos, Nigeria.... | 1,918 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-06 | uk-news | Law review shifts rape burden of proof to accused | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/apr/06/claredyer1 | Men contesting rape charges will have to convince a jury that their accusers gave free and unqualified consent, under radical proposals from a review of the law on sex offences set up by the Home Office. The reform would strengthen the hands of rape complainants by forcing a defendant to show not only that his accuser ... | 365 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-14 | world | French reignite row with Nato | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/14/eu.politics | Nato is braced for fresh trouble over Europe's planned rapid reaction force after France last night repeated its wish to keep the alliance at arm's length. On the eve of a key meeting in Brussels, the foreign ministry in Paris insisted that planning for the EU's nascent rapid reaction force be "independent" of Nato. Th... | 449 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-28 | media | Fox Kids UK poaches Capital Interactive boss | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/28/newmedia.broadcasting2 | Fox Kids UK has poached Capital Interactive head of business development Phil Guest to be its general manager for online and interactive services. Head of retail Beverley Blain is to replace him, taking on a wider remit encompassing both retail and sales. The company has formed a single commercial department, combining... | 129 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-14 | uk-news | Cabbies slow traffic to crawl | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/sep/14/oil.business1 | Manchester's morning rush-hour traffic was brought to a near standstill yesterday as 150 black cab drivers staged a go-slow protest calculated to cause maximum disruption to commuters. More than 70 black cabs travelled under police escort from Manchester airport to the city, driving four abreast and slowing early morni... | 537 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | uk-news | Doctors separate twins | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/07/3 | Doctors who performed complex surgery to separate conjoined twins Jodie and Mary are today expected to reveal details of the operation. The controversial separation, which was set to kill the weaker twin Mary, started at 9am yesterday and surgeons worked late into the night. Officials at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester,... | 330 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-21 | technology | Second sight | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/21/internetnews.onlinesupplement2 | Many of you are probably looking back on the year 2000 as a bad one for the internet. So how could the following optimistic appraisal of the internet's health at what seems like its nadir be anything but cynical gloating? Because, dear reader, and I mean this from the bottom of my solstice celebrating soul, happy days ... | 833 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-21 | world | Egypt recalls ambassador from Israel | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/21/israel3 | Egypt has ordered its ambassador to Israel to return home immediately after a night of rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip. Foreign minister Amr Moussa said the decision to recall ambassador Mohammed Bassiouny to Cairo was taken because of a deliberate “use of force” against the Palestinian people. Last night Israeli heli... | 335 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | society | Workplace racism laws are not tough enough | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/dec/07/socialcare.comment | The death of Stephen Lawrence and the subsequent report by Sir William MacPherson shattered the illusion that racism was no longer a problem in British institutions. Until this tragic event, local authorities were busily dismantling their race equality structures and other employers in the public sector were abandoning... | 768 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | uk-news | Lord Justice Judge's conclusions | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/21/davidshayler | The Guardian Newspapers Ltd The information against the Guardian was unspecific. Without repeating all the matters set out in the information it was said that parts of the submission "may" contain extremely sensitive material. No damage assessment was referred to in the information. In the application concerning the Gu... | 2,016 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | world | The hounding of Delroy Lindo | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/14/race.world | Sonia Lindo's face is stained with grief and exhaustion. She says she and her husband Delroy hardly sleep. Nobody sleeps well in the Lindo household these days. Seven-year-old Chacelle and nine-year-old Jerome are woken by nightmares of police batons and handcuffs, of officers screaming at their parents. Sixteen-year-o... | 3,003 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-21 | media | EMI unveils first online publishing deal | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/sep/21/newmedia | Not content to rest on its laurels while it awaits EU regulatory approval on its £14bn merger with Time Warner, EMI has revealed details of a wide-ranging partnership with Europe's largest free music download website Peoplesound.com - the first deal of its kind in Europe. The three-year exclusive tie-up means that Peop... | 346 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-21 | uk-news | Man shot dead in Belfast | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/21/northernireland | A man shot dead in Belfast today may have been the victim of the escalating feud between rival loyalist paramilitary gangs. He was gunned down outside a bookmaker's shop on the city's Crumlin Road. A second man was also hit and was taken to the nearby Mater Hospital suffering from wounds to his stomach. According to un... | 358 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-21 | uk-news | Railtrack fined over death | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/22/transport.world | Railtrack was fined £200,000 yesterday for a blunder that killed a passenger whose head was struck by scaffolding as he leaned out of a train window. The fine, imposed by Judge David Martineau at Blackfriars crown court in London, was the highest levied against Railtrack for a health and safety offence. The judge said ... | 183 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-14 | money | Internet code to find new spies | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/jan/14/workandcareers.uknews | The government is recruiting budding spies by hiding cryptic messages on its GCHQ spy centre website, challenging potential recruits to crack the code and apply for a job. The government communications headquarters, a top secret intelligence listening post in Cheltenham, is looking for internet-savvy spies who can piec... | 353 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-12-07 | politics | Arms to Iraq inquiry affects control on exports | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/dec/07/ethicalforeignpolicy.politicalnews | Campaigners against the arms trade yesterday voiced concern that the government is still refusing to allow parliament proper scrutiny of exports. Parliamentary control would increase transparency in a notoriously secret area. But the Department of Trade and Industry is refusing to contemplate handing over to a Commons ... | 342 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | business | Thomson refuses to meet C&N | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/apr/07/4 | Britain's biggest holiday company, Thomson Travel, flatly refused to meet German bidder C&N Touristic yesterday despite hints of a higher takeover offer. Thomson's management opted for a tough stance after big shareholders indicated they would reject C&N's existing £1.3bn proposal. Phillips & Drew, which owns 4% of Tho... | 254 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-07 | money | Millions face poverty | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/apr/08/personalfinancenews.jobsandmoney2 | Want to retire with £25,000 a year? You'd better start saving now and start saving lots. A 25-year-old man hoping to retire at 65 would need to put away £212.47 a month to secure a pension of £25,000 a year. If that sounds like a lot, then you'd better hope you're not much older than 25. Assuming a pension fund growth ... | 706 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-14 | world | Israel will keep South Lebanon militia armed | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/may/15/israelandthepalestinians.lebanon | Israel will leave its proxy militia in south Lebanon a farewell gift of arms and equipment, the deputy defence minister, Efraim Sneh, said yesterday, increasing the prospect of fresh bloodshed after Israeli troops withdraw in the weeks ahead. "As long as it is not safe for the South Lebanese Army, they are going to hav... | 555 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-21 | world | Plastic surgeons sculpt Rio's carnival look | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/feb/21/alexbellos | Brazil boasts more plastic surgeons per capita than any other country in the world, according to the industry's trade association, and these past few weeks their scalpels have been working overtime. Aspiring young models are increasingly seeking last-minute plastic surgery fixes to secure the most sought-after position... | 747 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | business | Carphone float falls flat | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jul/15/10 | Carphone Warehouse, Europe's largest independent mobile telephone retailer, made a disappointing debut on the stock market in London yesterday as investors questioned the company's valuation. Shares in Carphone Warehouse were issued at 200p each and finished their first session at 211.15p. The offer range for the float... | 415 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | uk-news | A country diary | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/07/ruralaffairs.countrydiary | The first dusting of snow on the hills the other side of the strath will mean far more snow on the distant Cairngorms, and it reminded me that this is the first year for a long time that I have not gone to hear the red deer roaring in the rut. The winter snow affects animals and birds in different ways. Many move to lo... | 352 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | world | Cheap land for absent 'farmers' | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/28/zimbabwe.davidpallister | The majority of state-owned commercial farms leased out under Zimbabwe's land resettlement programme in the last three years have been given to well-connected individuals, most of whom are absentee landlords with no farming experience, according to a list obtained by the Guardian. Many of the new owners have been given... | 697 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-03-14 | business | Low fat returns | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/mar/14/12 | Scotia Holdings, one of Britain's oldest biotechnology companies, desperately wants to be regarded as a serious pioneer in medical research. Unfortunately, its lead product is a weight-loss yoghurt, which rather reduces its gravitas in the City. Yesterday, Scotia announced it had signed a deal with US group Bestfoods, ... | 423 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | law | Have you seen these men? | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/07/warcrimes.germany | Konrad Kalejs will probably be fetching his bags from one of the carousels at Melbourne airport this morning while the home secretary, Jack Straw, tucks into breakfast. The 86-year-old accused of Nazi war crimes will be chased by the media as he returns to his suburban house but, before long, he will probably sink back... | 2,386 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-10-13 | business | PO wants £130m for universal bank | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/oct/14/9 | The Post Office is trying to coerce the major banks to inject a £130m annual subsidy into the universal bank by warning them their branches will become clogged up with social security claimants if the controversial project fails. More than 16m people receive their benefits in cash over 18,000 post office counters but w... | 390 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-14 | world | UN to 'take back' unruly Mitrovice | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/14/balkans | Tensions were rising in the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovice yesterday amid signs of an imminent security operation described by UN officials as an attempt to "regain control" of the region. A company of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, was reported to have been drafted in from its base in Pristina. Ten people were... | 497 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-07 | uk-news | TV series 'stoke fear of crime' | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/nov/07/ukcrime.patrickwintour | Home Office ministers are privately blaming violent story lines in TV programmes, such as The Bill and Crimewatch, for what they say are unjustifiably high fear of crime figures in Britain. The latest fear-of-crime figures in the British Crime Survey show that two thirds of the population believes crime rose between 19... | 937 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-28 | global | David Everitt-Matthias | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/jan/28/features11.g23 | Age: 39. Nationality: English. Restaurant: Le Champignon Sauvage, 24-26 Suffolk Road, Cheltenham, GL50. Tel: 01242 573449. Past form: "I started at the Inn on the Park (now the Four Seasons), then went to Steamers, which specialised in fish, and to Fingal's in Fulham. I've worked with Edouard Hari and Pierre Koffmann. ... | 497 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-02-14 | media | Carve-up for the online cash cow | https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/14/newmedia.mondaymediasection | 10 reasons why you won't become an internet millionaire . . . Admit it. You've got a great idea for an internet business. You're fed up of reading, and possibly writing, about other journalists becoming millionaires and you just know that it's your turn now. Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there's a pret... | 1,038 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-07 | uk-news | In brief | https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/07/5 | Miniature book fetches £2.6m A book not much bigger than a cigarette packet sold for £2.6m at Sotheby's in London yesterday. The 16th century book of hours, with 18 coloured miniatures by Flemish illustrator Simon Bening, was found in a private collection in the Netherlands. Healthy dogs put down About 137 healthy dogs... | 308 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-09-07 | global | Pass notes | https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/sep/07/features11.g21 | Age: Two, plus three days. Appearance: Globally buoyant - credited with saving old-fashioned US network TV, and Rupert Murdoch's bacon in India. In the UK, though, it is looking rumpled, if not yet needing to phone a friend. How so? Starting tonight, it has been cut back from nightly shows to paltry Monday and Thursday... | 456 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-05-07 | money | Beware the lurkers in cyberspace | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/may/07/shopping.shoppingadvice | He was called Maxus, hailed from Russia and earlier this year came close to topping the FBI's most wanted list. Not bad for a 19-year-old. Maxus's crime was to break into the computer system operated by US online retailer CD Universe, and steal 300,000 credit card numbers. With a precocious penchant for blackmail, Maxu... | 788 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-01-07 | business | 'Definitive' euro poll suffers rapid devaluation | https://www.theguardian.com/business/2000/jan/07/theeuro.emu | It is being billed as the definitive survey of business opinion on the controversial question of Britain's membership of the euro, the one that will settle once and for all the disputes about where UK plc stands. In reality it looks like becoming yet another arcane row over methodology. With the results of previous bus... | 424 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-07-14 | politics | Postcode guide to services at grassroots | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2000/jul/14/politicalnews.politics | The annual report is on the internet for anyone to see how their city, town or village is doing. Website visitors can put in their postcode and discover progress reports on their schools, hospitals and police forces. Here we pick the postcodes for Tony Blair and William Hague's constituency bases. The Liberal Democrat ... | 1,241 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-11-28 | society | Class divide centres on sex issues more than spending | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/28/socialcare1 | The big differences of opinion between the middle and working classes centre on social and moral issues rather than taxation, spending and economic policy. The British social attitudes survey found both classes wanted more public spending and agreed the two top priorities should be health and education. But people from... | 699 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-08-27 | money | Office hours: Personal Assistants | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2000/aug/28/workandcareers.officehours | If youÍre taking today off, and wondering how colleagues are coping without you, a recent survey, conducted by Parcelforce Worldwide, might confirm certain suspicions. Its findings reveal that the vast majority of UK offices and workers encounter disruptions in the smooth running of day-to-day business when PAs and adm... | 1,089 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-06-07 | world | Botched escape Helicopter crashes as sex offender makes daring bid for freedom | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jun/07/michaelellison | Like a Hollywood plot gone wrong, a helicopter lies crashed in an orange grove and two desperate criminals are on the run. Police with tracker dogs were hunting yesterday for Steve Whitsett, 28, a sex offender who clambered aboard the helicopter, flown by a student pilot, as it hovered above the recreation yard of a Fl... | 271 |
guardian | 2,000 | 2000-04-28 | global | How to avoid an audience | https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/apr/29/artsfeatures1 | The perfect setting for these cult American post-rockers' eerie guitar soundscapes would be the closing sequence of Apocalypse Now. Sadly, the Doors got there 20 years ago. Still, the sheer surrealism of the venue, a former working men's club, makes it equally suitable for avant garde music. The vibe is somewhere betwe... | 356 |
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